July 2, 2009 in City

June weather had ups, downs

Record snow year ends at 97.7 inches
Jody Lawrence-Turner jodyl@spokesman.com, (509) 459-5593
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June’s weather might have seemed wacky, with extreme temperatures as well as mighty thunderstorms, heavy rain and even hail.

But weather officials say the month’s averages were pretty normal, despite a couple of broken rainfall and temperature records.

On June 19, Spokane International Airport received 0.55 of an inch of rain, said Ellie Kelch, a National Weather Service meteorologist, breaking the record for that date: 0.44 of an inch, set in 1916.

For the month, 1.18 inches of rain fell in Spokane, Kelch said – “exactly normal for June.”

A high of 55 broke the record for the …

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